Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00246)

Eldon,
Ouch!
This is one of the times I find myself wondering what the real agenda of the
Masters was in writing that.  Given the historic fact that when people think
they have the REAL TRUTH they have this unpleasant tendency to try to kill
everyone who they think has a not so real truth, why would KH even write such
a thing?
Would it not have made more sense from their point of view to say "Look,
everyone makes mistakes, but you get oodles of incarnations (an oodle being
defined as a number equal to one-fifth the total matter of the physical
universe) to work them out.  If you go off on a spiritual tangent this time,
you'll fix it later on."
When people start talking about who is a real Theosophist, they remind of a
an inicident at Olcott in 1992.
As a prelude to World Parliament of Religions the next year, a sort of
symposium took place in a tent on the grounds during a public gathering at
the end of summer school.  The idea was to bring all kinds of people onto the
grounds, show them a good time, expose them to the TS and maybe get some more
victims-er-members.
Anyway, it also brought in an infestation of Jews for Jesus, who proceeded to
make complete and utter nuisances of themselves.  And at the symposium, after
the representatives of some different (and a couple very different) local
religious bodies spoke, one of the plague asked the Lutheran minister what he
was doing on a panel with "false religions"?
At that point John Algeo, who had the misfortune of chairing the thing,
started to turn red in the face and sputter and looked at me with the obvious
thought of "Chuck, you're right, we shouldn't be doing this."
There may very well be one ultimate spiritual truth but there are as many
paths to it as there are people.  If we start judging who has the one, true,
Theosophy, we are going to get ourselves into terrible trouble and while I am
very skeptical about Karma, if there is such a thing my personal guess is
that it will heavier on those who judge those whose spiritual paths are
different from their own than on those who follow the different path.
It's a damned big universe out there and we really know very little, to
little to say who is right.
Your last paragraph said it all.

Chuck the Barbarian MTI, Heretic, M G of 5
Heretic
Troublemaker